Santa Clara Central Park, Thursday, September 7, 2017

After so many very hot days, it was delightful that we got a cooler day for our paintsite at Santa Clara's Central Park.  It remained cloudy throughout our painting time, and even a few raindrops fell just as we had set out our paintings for our sharing time.  It only rained for about a minute or two, just long enough to force us to grab all our paintings and put them back under the canopy of the Pavilion.  Central Park is large with picnic Pavilion, creek, bridges, International Swim Center, lawn bowling green, lots of attractive trees, multiple children's playgrounds, and the Central Park Library.  The feature that beckoned to most of the artists was the duck pond with fountains, waterfall, and peninsula landscaped with lots of blooming flowers.

Link to Santa Clara's Central Park

Pratima's painting of the pond with fountain and flowers

Susan J and Jenny

Jenny's painting of the duck pond with the swim center in the background

Many artists painting by the pond

Candy and John

Candy's painting of the duck pond

Candy's study of ducks

Annie

Annie's painting of the pond

Cindy and some ducks that posed for her

Cindy's painting of ducks

Cindy's painting of more ducks

Susan B-G

Susan B-G's painting of the pond

Susan B-G's painting of ducks by the pond with artist Susan J in the background

Lisa with Pavilion in the background

Lisa's painting of the pond and fountain

Waving to Salinda and Dick across the pond

Dick's painting of the pond and fountain

Salinda's painting of pond, fountain, and ducks

Grace

Grace's painting of the pond and fountain

Elaine

Marilyn's painting of the flowers reflecting in the pond

Benay

Benay's painting of the Pavilion

Toni's painting of a tree starting to turn color

The Pavilion had a convenient area for some of the artists to pose with their artwork